Freudyen An

by Christopher Bollas

Freud'un neyi istemediğini saptamakla başlayalım. O, derin, karanlık sırlar aramamaktadır. Aslında bunun tersi doğrudur. Sıradan bir hikâye anlatılmasını ister. Diğer bir deyişle, Freud, gündelik yaşama dair bir şeyler duymak ister. Gündelik rapor sayesinde analizan serbestçe konuşur çünkü özel öneme sahip bir şey oluyor gibi gözükmemektedir. Analizanlar, rahatsız edici konulardan söz etmekte tereddüt ederken ve tedirgin edici zihinsel içeriklere karşı savunmacı bir tutum içine girerken, güya gerçekte ilgisiz görünen başka bir şeyden söz ederek rahatsız edici içeriği anlatmaya direnirken, ironik olarak, zamanla bu konuşma, bilinçdışı düşünceleri ortaya çıkarır.

Genres: Psychoanalysis, Psychology

160 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2007

About the author

Christopher Bollas, Ph.D. is a Member of the International Psychoanalytical Association and has been practicing for over fifty years. Former Director of Education at the Austen Riggs Center he was Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Institute of Child Neuropsychiatry of the University of Rome. He is a prolific author and international lecturer.

Reviews

[Tylor Lovins · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bollas presents many of his original ideas and some critical readings of Freud in this book. Composed of two interviews and three essays, but only a hundred pages long, this is a great place to start with Bollas' work. I have read a few of his published articles before this, but this book stands on its own, and every idea presented is either backed by some minor explication or substantial argument within the text itself.

Many ideas come up here that will be of interest in those reading psychoanalytic literature. Within the interviews: the free listening analyst, the Freudian Moment, the Freudian Pair, theory as a meta-sensual phenomenon that creates structures for unconscious perception of unconscious material, a critique of "here and now" transference interpretations as primary in the analytic process, an argument for a developing and perceptive unconscious, an argument for the purpose of analysis as the space for the growth and development of the analysand's unconscious; and finally three essays: one on "perceptive identification" (essentially the internal object relations exposition of Winnicott's idea of "the use of an object"), what theory is, and how transference interpretations can contaminate and spoil the free association process.

The 4-star rating has nothing to do with deficiency of ideas or obscurity of presentation in this work. Although mostly arbitrary based on my personal interests, I gave it four stars for how repetitive it can be at times, though for the person who is new to Bollas' work, this could be a strength of the work.

Highly recommend.

[Mariana Elizondo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mi tipo de libro. ¡Esta excelente!

[thaís bambozzi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cada vez gostando mais de conhecer as ideias do Bollas. Não curti tanto o formato desse livro… a coisa da entrevista me cansou um pouco mais do que no outro, mas acaba por ajudar demais na compreensão. Ansiosa para escutá-lo na palestra do CEP esse ano!

[Eleonora · Rating 5 out of 5]

Básico en el nuevo momento del psicoanálisis o lo que llaman el psicoanálisis contemporáneo, Bollas transmite ideas complejas de una forma sencilla y ahonda en conceptos que amplían la teoría de una de las disciplinas psicológicas más importantes y complejas de nuestros tiempos.

[Brad · Rating 4 out of 5]

Repetitive in parts, but Bollas's perspectives offer fruitful insights for any clinician.